<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Dear Tom McNeil and anybody else who is interested,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It sounds to me as if those Mathushek square grands that you referred to were antiques from the late 19th century that never got assembled.  But in the 1930s, Mathushek tried to bring back the square in a smaller format, probably along with a lot of makers who were designing small pianos that somebody--anybody!--would buy.  I've seen advertisements for these in <EM>Musical Trades</EM> in the 1930s, in a little volume called "Piano Styles of 1937," some excerpts from which we had in the "Piano 300" exhibit, and I have actually seen one of the pianos, in the very interesting collection in Calgary, Alberta, which used to be called Chinook Keyboard Collection, and is now called something else which I can't remember.  They were square, much smaller than the massive squares of the late 19th century, and without anything as fancy as rosewood or cabriole legs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Edwin M. Good</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>--- Edwin Good</DIV> <DIV>--- <A href="mailto:pianonut@earthlink.net">pianonut@earthlink.net</A></DIV> <DIV>--- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>